I was told that im a cruel cow today!!!!!

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My horse for the past 2 years has lived out. She is usually fully clipped out and rugged accordingly. Well this winter I have left her be and roughed her off as she is in foal and due in April. She has been rugged and is looking good.
Well last week I moved yards due to losing grazing, at the new yard she has a stablewhich she absolutley loves. I turn her out in the moring and 2 to 3 hrs later she wants to come in so i bring her in after lunch (about 1 ish). Well some person who I no longer talk to heard about about my mares new routine and starting slagging me off saying what a cruel cow I was and she should be living out as im messing with her system and she will end up aborting her baby. I know this is b*ll**cks but it really gets on my nerves how people are so quick to shoot people down. I would rather my mare to be in a stable and warm and dry rather then standing by a field gate calling to everyone who walks pass.
Sorry for mega post but just had to vent :).
Mint chocolate baileys for everyone :).
 
Probably just jealous for some reason. I have two who are like this and have known others over the years. You are absolutely right in listening to your horse. 'Some people are so in tune they know better ' !!!! Ignore them and carry on xx hope foal is wonderful xx
 
I'll take one of those chocolates, yum!!

Just ignore them, people just have to get there 10 pence worth in! If your mare is happy and healthy thats all that matters!!
And what a cruel thing to say about aborting the foal, some people just dont think.

Best off not talking to her me thinks!!
 
Some people have nothing better to do with their lifes :hug:

My little mare loves coming in at night in the winter she stands at the gate and wates patiently on the staff going to get them x
 
Horse people hey!!! Everyone thinks their way of keeping is the way everyone should do it!!! Believe me I come across enough of them!! As long as you know that your mare isn't stressed then you'll be fine!! Preggers mares in the last couple of months don't exactly like to be running around and enjoying freedom, their too busy trying to haul their big belly around!!!!! I remember what my mare was like, she was only too happy to come in!!! Good luck with the impending arrival xx
 
How rude to say something like that! As you mentioned, you have just moved to this yard, so how does she know what is good for your mare better than you?!!

Ignore her, she seem like a stick yer nose in busybody who think they know everything! You know what is right for your mare, and to me it sounds perfectly fine!

Hope your foal is lovely :)
 
I bought my mare (in foal) September 09 - she was kept on 5 day livery up to March 10 and was in 2pm to 8am every night, blanket clipped and gently hacked out - shock horror!! She was moved to a grass livery stable at the end of March and had a beautiful filly foal 11 June all by herself in the field. I checked her the night before at 6pm and she was showing absolutely no signs whatsover, by 8am filly was cantering round paddock with mummy.

No - your mare will not abort her baby for being brought in at night!

Best of luck...
 
Oh thanks you peeps. I feel so much better now ive vented off a bit of my anger lol.
Yes I hope foal is lovely too. I have kindly asked my mare to cook me up a nice palomino and white filly, as she is in foal to a perlino tobiano, so figers crossed :).
 
Well good luck with the colour, I put a black mare to a bay stallion and got........ yes you guessed it a chestnut!!!!! I knew there was a 25% chance of chestnut, but I really thought it was going to be bay! I had about a 50% chance of that!! heyho, I wouldn't change him for the world now though!!!
 
omg some people will just bi**h no matter what people do with their horses, you would be dammed if you left her out with a foal due and dammed that you bring her in.
You know your horse, do as you feel is best, and enjoy the foal
 
your horse is happy, you are happy. nothing else matters. just smile sweetly at them then keep doing exactly as you are. annoys hell out of them as they can see they are having no effect on what you are doing & they aren't getting to you.
 
oh for goodness sake!! shes YOUR bloody horse!! it really annoys me when people think their opinion is the right way! yes everyone has an opinion and everyone is entitled to it, however they dont need to go around telling anyone who'll listen and slag others off! just ignore!! yes i agree with piccys of your new baby please!! :D
 
ok so mmmmmm you now stable your mare, who is happy with that, but she goes out for how ever long she needs - personally i tell said person to go boil head or report me - lol i was cruel witch last winter for leaving my sec d unrugged 24/7 till had talk from WHW and loads with laminitis this summer - this year ????? all un rugged including TB - smile and rise above it lol i did :)
 
Welcome to the club lol

My crime was as follows

I put the horses out in the snow :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Did I not realise the temp was -14 :eek::eek::eek:

Uhmmm All I can say is if it snows out they will go again ;)
 
My mum has land and stables at home, and we turn our lot out all day and in at night summer and winter. However my mums newest horse hated it at home, wouldn't stay out and would start hooning around. We gave it a couple of months, but in the end he went to a local livery yard. They turn him out for a couple of hours a day in winter and twice a day in summer, and he's so much happier.
My mum sees him every day, and if he spots anyone he waits at the gate to come in.
He's Dutch, and just never got the concept of all day turnout to the point it was making him unhappy (and we've successfully converted 2 other foreigners). We also suspect his motivation is maximum food for minimum effort when he's in.
Ignore this person, you know your horse and how she is in herself
 
My old girl (28 and arthritic) lives out 24/7 from April to the end of October. She starts coming in at night during the last week of October so that I know she is settled with the new routine before the fireworks start (it ABSOLUTELY would not be safe to leave her in a field under them). Last autumn she took herself into her stable entirely of her own accord one evening and stood there waiting for a haynet to arrive. She obviously just fancied a night in. She is out from about 8.30 am to 5ish at the moment and is often seen waiting by the gate by early afternoon. She suffers from mud-fever given the chance, and the look on her face when presented with a muddy gateway (it nearly a foot deep in places) tells me she hates wading through it. Personally, I think I would be a right cruel cow if I made her winter out. My horse gets what suits her, not what suits me. I'm sure a pregnant mare benefits from some quiet "me -time" in a dry stable with food entirely to herself so don't worry about it. In my experience, the owners who bleat the loudest about natural horse keeping are the ones who don't actually bother to see their horses every day, let alone twice a day. Quite how they think their horse manages to break ice which is 3 inches thick in a raised trough and which refreezes within 10 minutes is a mystery to me since they certainly don't turn up to give their poor animals a drink.
 
People are clueless arent they! I got told I was cruel once for leaving a chubby forest pony out unrugged in the winter, apparently he should have been rugged and brought in every night because its cold at night.................*sigh*
 
Total rubbish. I was speaking to a stud the other day and they can't take my mare until May because of all the abortions over the winter from people leaving them out all year so they've loads of free returns. I keep mine out but at least 2 would come in 24/7 by choice!
 
My friend bought a mare and rode her four-five times per week, just gentle hacking. If anyone else rode her she would buck but she was fine with my friend. One morning said friend went to the stable and found two horses, her mare and the most beautiful foal. The mare had obviously foaled on her own and without problems, she was fit and so was her baby.
 
Utter tosh! If you and your mare are happy then you are doing the right thing! My little mare is due early may, and was chaser clipped and worked gently right up until the snow. Both my girls live out and have haylage morning and night plus a tea, but if Seri (or Melly for that matter, although she isnt in foal!) wanted to have some alone time or to be bought in at night I wouldnt think twice! A change in routine wont affect your mare or her baby as long as it is a routine she is happy with and she is fed, watered and warm!
Im thirding the call for pictures - as many as possible - dont wait for baby, I'd love to see your girl anyway! Ive asked Seri for a pally filly, but seeing as she is choc with roaning and 'Daddy' is a bay I get the feeling it will be more a bay colt! lol!
 
Only you know your horse, if she is happy then thats all that matters! i agree alot of poeple are very opinionated and like to stick their ore in, ignore her!

good luck with the foal im sure it will be lovely ;)
 
Perhaps this person should put as much time and energy into worrying about real welfare cases.

WHW are always needing extra help ;)
 
There's always someone who knows best! Some woman at the yard got on her high horse when I was advising (asked for) another lady on tough, durable water buckets that wouldn't get kicked over etc etc... of course a plastic tub for child's toys from Toy's R Us is just as tough as a stubbs bucket, designed to withstand half a tonne of horse cavorting with it! ;) I gave up!

I would do what you and your mare are happy with all the way. Don't let other people's snidey comments sway you.

Best of luck with the foal.
 
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